<p dir="ltr">On Aug 11, 2015 8:50 AM, "Peter Bennett (cats22)" <<a href="mailto:cats22@comcast.net">cats22@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi MythTV experts<br>
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> I am updating the wiki and wondering about the Balanced Disk I/O setting.<br>
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> <a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Storage_Groups#Balanced_Disk_I.2FO">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Storage_Groups#Balanced_Disk_I.2FO</a><br>
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> The above page recommends if you are doing more than 2 recordings at once to use this setting to get recordings put on separate file systems to avoid buffer overruns. I am thinking of changing that recommendation.<br>
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> A quick back of the envelope calculation tells me that I could record some 50 HD programs at the same time on one disk drive, based on 1 Gb/sec transfer rate and 8 GB per hour on each HD recording.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Your calculation fails to account for seek times between multiple HD streams, commercial flagging, and playback. You might be able to afford SSD for recording drives, but I'm not there yet. </p>
<p dir="ltr">My disks write a single stream at max 80-120 MB/s. This goes down significantly when seeking for commercial flagging or recording multiple programs. MythTV likes to write data every second and if the disk is busy I see glitches from dropped data. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Before changing the recommendation, please collect test results for multiple platforms. Maybe the recommendation for your hardware will be different than mine. My system benefits from balanced I/O; I've tested both ways. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Tom </p>